He said: “You can be a very good player, but you need a platform, team-mates and good coaching staff to help you. Then you need time and luck and training hard and hard work.

“Sometimes the people don’t realise that for a player with talent to have a good career and be successful you need a platform. Tottenham, I hope, will provide that platform.

“It’s the platform provided for Dele Alli, Harry Kane and Harry Winks and different players that were very successful in their moment. I hope that happens with him too because he’s a great talent.”

Ryan Sessegnon, second right, played a key role in helping Fulham win promotion to the Premier League in the 2017-18 season (John Walton/PA).

Tottenham’s interest in Sessegnon charts back to when he made his debut as a 16-year-old in the 2016-17 campaign.

Capable of playing anywhere on the left side – full-back, wing-back or as a winger – the teenager was used in a variety of different positions by Fulham last season.

It perhaps explains why he struggled with the step up, in addition to working with three different managers.

Sessegnon even played as a right winger on occasions, but still managed to score three goals in the Premier League.

After recovering from a hamstring issue, the Londoner will hope to make the Tottenham squad on a matchday for the first time against Crystal Palace on Saturday, but his manager is not yet decided where best to use him given his recent injury lay-off.

Mauricio Pochettino will have another option on the left side for Tottenham now Ryan Sessegnon is fit again (Peter Byrne/PA).

Pochettino added: “I cannot tell you. We’ll see. Because Thursday was the first day he was involved with the whole team and still he’s not had one tactical session with us.

“We were six or seven players training in the last week and still I cannot tell if he’s going to play in one or another position. We’re going to assess him and see how he adapts to the new club and new level of football.

“From the Championship with Fulham to Tottenham in the Champions League is going to be completely different.

“The good thing is that he has the capacity to play in different positions. That’s an interesting quality and maybe he can play in different positions for us. It will be very helpful.”